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had been provided for us at the house of one of
the professors, whose easy civility quickly made
us forget that we were strangers; and in the
whole time of our stay we were gratified by every
mode of kindness, and entertained with all the
elegance of lettered hospitality. In the morning
we rose to perambulate a city which only history
shows to have once flourished; and surveyed the
remains of ancient magnificence, of which even
the ruins cannot long be visible, unless some care
be taken to preserve them; and where is the
pleasure of preserving such mournfhl memorials ?
They have been till very lately so much neglect-
ed, that every man carried away the stones, who
fancied that he wanted them. The university
within a few years consisted of three colleges,
but is now reduced to two; the college of St.
Leonard being lately dissolved by the sale of its
buildings and the appropriation of its revenues to
the professors of the two others. The chapel of
the alienated college is yet standingxe2x80x94a fabric
not inelegant of external structure; but I was
always by some civil excuse hindered from enter-
ing it. The dissolution of St. Leonard’s college
was doubtless necessary; but of that necessity
there is reason to complain. It is surely not
without just reproach, that a nation, of which the
commerce is hourly extending and the wealth, in-
creasing, denies any participation of its prosperity
to its literary societies, and, while its merchants
or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its uni-
versities to moulder into dust.” In the year 1683,
the tomb of bishop Kennedy in the college church
was opened, and six silver maces were found in
it of very beautiful workmanship. The other
religious structures of this town are interesting
for their
i ntiquity; and the principal church,
which is sufficiently large to hold between two
and three thousand people, contains ihe monument
of archbishop Sharpe, who was murdered near
the town by the covenanters, and whose tragical
history is displayed in rude sculpture on one of
the walls.

Till the Reformation, St. Andrew’s enjoyed the
high distinction of being the metropolitan see of
the Scottish kingdom. It also carried on a profit-
able trade; and, in the time of Charles I., posses-
sed between thirty and forty vessels. Both its
commerce and its manufactures have of late years
been reduced to a low ebb, and the manufacture of
golf-balls is now the only one that exists. It is
associated with Dundee, Cupar, Perth, and Forfar,
in sending one member to parliament. It is seat-
ed at the bottom of a bay, on the level top of a
small hill, 30 m. N. N. E. of Edinburgh. Long.
2. 50. W. lat. 56. 18. N. Pop. in 1821. 4,900.

Andrews-bridge, p.v. Lancaster Co. Pa. 38 m.
S. E. Harrisburg.

Andros, an island in the Archipelago, 24 m. long
and 8 broad. It is one of the ancient Cyclades.
It has fertile plains, which are well watered; and
it wants only a good harbour. The inhabitants
are of the Greek church, and have a bishop and
several monasteries. The principal riches of this
sland consist in silks, and the fields produce oran-
ros, citrons, mulberries, pomegranates, and figs.
ihe capital is of the same name ; and about two
miles from it are to be seen the ruins of a strong
wall, with the fragments of many columns, chapi-
ters, bases, broken statues, and several inscriptions,
some of which mention the senate and people of
Andros, .and the priests of Bacchus; from which
it is probable that this was the site of the ancient
city ; Long. 25. 2. E. lat 38.0. N.

Androscoggin, a river rising from Umbagog
Lake, on the W. side of the state of Maine, it runs
into New Hampshire, and re-enters Maine, falling
into the Kennebeck, about 18 m. above its conflu-
ence with the sea.

Anduxar, or Andujar, a town of Spain, in Anda-
lusia, with a castle, and some beautiful churches
and convents. The environs abound in wheat,
wine, oil, honey, and fruit. It is seated on the
Guadalquivir, and on the great post road from
Madrid, dis. 5 1-2 leagues, by way of Cordova
to Seville and Cadiz.

Antmur, Cape, the southern extremity of Cara
mania, opposite the Isle of Cyprus ; on the prom-
ontory are the ruins of the ancient city Anemu
rium. N. lat. 36. 15. E. long. 32. 36.

Angediva, a small island in the Indian Ocean,
off the cxc2xbbast of Malabar, belonging to the Portu-
guese. It is 60 m. S. S. E. of Goa. Long. 74. 12.
E. lat. 14. 43. N.

Anegada, the most northern of the English
Virgin Islands. Long. 64. 7. W. lat. 18.40. N.

Angelica, the chief town of Alleghany Co. N.
Y. 282. m. W. of Albany. Pop. 998.

Angelo, St., a town of Italy, 14 m. S W. of
Urbino.

Angelo, St., a town of Naples, 6 m. N. N. W. of
Conza.

Angelos, a city of Mexico. See Puebla de los
Angelos.

Anserburg, a town of Prussia, with a castle,
seated on the N. side of a lake, to which it gives
name, 70 m. S. E. of Konigsberg. Long. 22. 15.
xc2xa3. lat. 54. 8. N.

Angerbury, or Angermanland, a province of
Sweden, in Noidland, 150 miles long, and from
25 to 80 broad, the widest part being to the east
on the gulf of Botlmia. It is mountainous and
woody, and in it are considerable iron-works.
The chief town is Hernosand.

Angermunde, a town of Brai lenburg, in the
Ucker Mark, on the lake Mund., 48 m. N. N. E.
of Berlin.

Angers, a large city of France, in the depart-
ment of Maine and Loire, situated near the or n-
fluence of the Sarte, the Loire, and the Miine,
which divides the city into two equal parts, be-
tween which there is a communication by two
large bridges. Angers contains 36,000 inhabit-
ants. The castle is situated in the centre of the
city, on a rock, overhanging the river. The
cathedral is a venerable and elegant structure:
the principal gate is surrounded with three steeples.
Here lies interred with her ancestors, the renown-
ed Margaret, daughter of Rene, king of Sicily,
and queen of Henry VI. of England, who ex-
pired after many intrepid but ineffectual efforts
to replace her husband on the throne, in 1482, at
the castle of Dampierre. The university of An-
gers was founded in 1398, and the academy of
Belles Lettres in 1685. It has a considerable
manufacture of handkerchiefs and canvas; and
the produce of the slate quarries, at the extremity
of the suburb of Bressigny, forms likewise an im
portant article of commerce. The walls with
xe2x96xa0which king John of England surrounded it in
1214, remain nearly entire, and are of very great
circumference. It is 50 m. E. N. E. of Nantes,
and 175 S. W. of Paris. Long. 0. 33. W. lat. 47

28. N.

Anglen, or Angelen, a small country of Den-
mark, in the duchy of Sleswick. Many authors
suppose that from the people of this country the
English originated; being called in to assist the









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